When we fled Swat, we went to the city of Attock in Punjab province, right on the border with the North West Frontier Province.
The train was travelling from Mandalay to Myitkyina in the north, near the border with China.
So much so that he wanted this week to scotch Pentagon plans to redeploy some of the American forces, especially those nearest the border with North Korea.
Rebel Kurds took over a string of towns in the north-east, while the opposition held much of the territory in the north-west near the border with Turkey.
Although Barrovian by birth, the 26-year-old began his career north of the border with Dundee, and after spells at a string of clubs eventually found his way to Holker Street.
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Compare, he suggests, a shade smugly, Narva, Estonia's virtually all-ethnic-Russian town on the north-eastern border, with Ivangorod, just across the river in Russia.
In recent days, Phnom Penh has been pounding the bases of the hardline holdouts of the Khmer Rouge (remember them?) in the north, close to the porous border with Thailand.
South Korean diplomats suggest that the government may announce a halt to remaining business ties with the North, except through the cross-border industrial complex, known as Kaesong.
The country has 16, 000 wind turbines, mostly concentrated in the north of the country, near the border with Denmark - including the biggest in the world, owned by the Repower company.
Rajin-Sonbong (or Rason, for short) lies by the Sea of Japan in the country's north-east, near the border with Russia.
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Hangwani Mulaudzi, police spokesman for the Limpopo province, said no crocodile attacks had been reported in the area - in the far north of South Africa, near the border with Botswana.
From the lowland steppes of the north, the ground rises to the southern border with Georgia which runs through the Caucasus mountain peaks.
The Czech Republic also shares its northwestern border with Germany, and is bordered by Poland on the north, by Austria on the south, and by the Slovak Republic on the east.
NAFTA, the free-trade agreement with the United States which alarms labour south of the border even more than north.
With the Edinburgh skies overcast and the temperature north of the border considerably colder than might normally be expected of a May morning, the first 20 minutes' fare was less than magical.
It is about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Sinuiju, the North Korean city at the country's busiest border crossing with China.
For several days now, French airstrikes have been targeting a town called Diabaly, about 140km (87 miles) north towards the border with Mauritania.
Earlier, on Friday, Syrian troops retook a checkpoint on the north-eastern border with Lebanon at Yaarubiyeh, captured a day earlier by Islamist fighters, reports said.
Adjacent to the white border at the left of the stamp is the coastline of North America, with the words "New York" jutting out into the Atlantic, and adjacent to the border at the right the coastlines of Ireland, Great Britain, and France, with the word "Paris" at the end of a dotted arc that charts the flight path between the two cities.
General Eikenberry highlighted the stretch of border opposite North Waziristan where the Islamabad government struck a peace agreement with tribal leaders and militants last September.
Mali's army chief General Ibrahima Dahirou Dembele told AFP that Chadian troops would join some 500 Nigeri troops in western Niger with the aim of crossing the border and heading towards the town of Gao, in north-eastern Mali.
Meanwhile the Israeli army, caught flat-footed both on the Golan Heights and on the border with Lebanon, will have to shore up the border, at least in the north, to make it physically impassable.
That compares with 82 insolvencies north of the border in January 2012.
Unnamed Saudi officials quoted in The New York Times describe al-Ghamdi as a militant cleric from the same tribe as several of the aircraft hijackers of September 11 -- a tribe from Saudi Arabia's Asir Province, north of the Saudi border with Yemen.
Rogers wants in on the action up north of the border, too, and they'll be keeping pace with their GSM brethren below the St.
Whitehall departments reaching north of the border, primarily with welfare, will squeeze budgets harder, while public sector employment falls.
Tayside Police have promised that its officers will be working in co-operation with forces north and south of the border to trap the egg collectors believed to be responsible.
America now wants more stringent inspection and verification of the North's missile and nuclear programmes, along with reductions in the threat posed by North Korea's armed forces, which are mostly massed along the border with the South.
To the north is the highest step, the majestic snow-capped mountains that mark the border with China.
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